Salvatore Santoro

Salvatore "Tom Mix" Santoro (18 November 1915-January 2000) was an underboss in the Lucchese crime family during the 1980s.

Biography
Salvatore Santoro was born in Leonia, New Jersey in 1915, and he was nicknamed "Tom Mix" after the western film actor. He started working for the Lucchese crime family in the 1930s, and he operated extortion, loansharking, narcotics, and prostitution rings for Tommy Lucchese. He was "made" during the 1940s, and he became a capo in 1951, when Lucchese took control of the family from the late Tommy Gagliano. Santoro operated out of East Harlem and The Bronx, controlling a large heroin operation during the 1950s; in 1959, he was sentenced to 20 years in prison for working with Bumpy Johnson in the drug trade. Santoro was released in 1978, taking over as underboss and commanding the family's operations in The Bronx. During the 1980s, Anthony Corallo was recorded talking with Santoro over the phone in Corallo's Jaguar, and Santoro was sentenced to 100 years in prison in 1986. He died in a prison hospital in 2000.